Tag: Issues

LAHORE: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has underlined the need for resolving all pending issues between Pakistan and India, including the Kashmir dispute, to achieve sustainable peace and progress in the region. He was talking to Indian High Commissioner in Pakistan, Sharat Sabharwal on Tuesday. Matters of mutual interest, current situation in the region, terrorism and other issues of importance came under discussion during the meeting. Nawaz said the two governments should take concrete

ZAGREB: Croatia dramatically stepped up its fight against corruption on Friday, issuing an international arrest warrant for a former prime minister, the day after he slipped out of the country.
The move is widely seen as a significant step for the country's bid the join the European Union, as the anti-graft fight is among key criteria Zagreb has to meet to join the 27-nation bloc.
Ivo Sanader, who led the government from 2003 until 2009, is wanted by organised crime and

ISLAMABAD: A three-member Supreme Court bench on Tuesday issued notice to the Petroleum Ministry's director general (DG) for using contemptuous language against the litigations pending in court.
The bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was hearing a petition by Jamaat-e-Islami former chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad against the government's move to purchase its sold assets from British Petroleum at exorbitant

KARACHI: The Planning Commission has decided that development projects will be approved only if disaster-risk-reduction measures are incorporated at their initial stages, Pakistan Today learnt on Monday.
According to the new guidelines, vulnerability from disasters must be kept in view while planning development projects and disaster-risk-reduction measures incorporated at the design, planning and implementation stages. The guidelines have been sent to the chief secretaries of

LAHORE: A consumer count on Saturday summoned Qatar Airways for reconciliation with an aggrieved handicap person who along with his wife and two minors had been allowed traveling towards Ecuador without visas by the airlines.
The court while fixing the December 15, summoned Qatar Airline through its manager, during the hearing of an application filed by Imran Ali, his wife Humaira Ali and minors Shayan Ali and Shaheera Ali.
In the application filed though Nasir Mahmud

RAWALPINDI: An Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday issued arrest warrants for Rawal Town Superintendent of Police Khurram Shahzad and former Rawalpindi city police officer (CPO) Saud Aziz in the Benazir Bhutto murder case.
ATC Judge Rana Nisar Ahmad Khan issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Shahzad and Aziz under sections 119, 109 and 20 for negligence and misappropriations in evidences required for investigations. The judge said both police officials
and other five

SEOUL: North Korea on Saturday warned of unpredictable consequences if the United States and South Korea go ahead with naval exercises in the Yellow Sea, days after launching a deadly attack on the South.
The USS George Washington aircraft carrier and its battle group were planning four days of exercises with South Korea from Sunday as a show of force after Pyongyang stunned the world with its artillery strike. The planned drill has also heightened tensions
between

BEIJING: China warned Friday against military activity in its exclusive economic zone, ahead of weekend US-South Korean exercises intended as a show of force against Beijing's ally North Korea.
"We hold a consistent and clear-cut stance on the issue. We oppose any party to take any military actions in our exclusive economic zone without permission," foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in a statement. Beijing said Thursday it opposed the war games, which come after North

LAHORE: A seminar held by Sahil discussed the needs and steps that should be taken to the problems of street children. It was also discussed among experts how to solve the problems of the increasing number of street children.
Dr Naeem Zafar from Pahchan organization, stated that providing medical and psychological treatment to the vulnerable children was integral. These children were susceptible to diseases, being out in the open, in unprotected and disease prone areas, and are

ISLAMABAD
Yousaf Raza Gilani's government is not taking the opposition into confidence over crucial national issues just like the previous regime, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Nisar Ali Khan said on Friday.
Addressing a press conference, Nisar said, "Pakistan's strategic dialogue with the US is very crucial in which the opposition should have been taken into confidence by the government but, Gilani's government did not even share the agenda of the

ISLAMABAD
The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has issued show cause notices to 10 jute mills, all members of Pakistan Jute Mills Association (PJMA), for alleged cartelisation in supply of gunny bags to various government departments, including Pakistan Agriculture Storage and Supply Corporation Limited (PASSCO), which is a violation of Section 4 of the Competition Act, 2010.
In order to detect cases of collusive tendering or bidding in public procurement, CCP

ISLAMABAD: The tax returns of former president Pervez Musharraf could not go public on Wednesday due to the legal controversy over handing and taking over of the record between the officials of Federal Board of Revenue and the Auditor General at the Public Accounts Committee meeting.
The legal row between FBR and AGP high-ups enraged PAC member Khawaja Asif who walked out of the meeting, saying the former president was calling shots from London and the officials of FBR and AGP

LAHORE: After the logical conclusion of the conflict between the judiciary and lawyers over former Lahore district and sessions judge Zawar Ahmed Sheikh, candidates for the Lahore Bar Association (LBA) elections have nothing on their hands to campaign for, Pakistan Today has learnt.
As the matter was resolved some weeks ago, lawyers could not find any campaign issue now, which was dampening their election campaigns. In this situation, the presidential candidates in the elections

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday issued notice to Punjab government on a petition challenging ban on appointments in grades 5 to 16 in provincial departments.
Advocate Alamgir Khan filed the petition stating that the government had put a ban on recruitments in grades 5 to 16 which had caused an increase in unemployment. He said the young educated people were getting involved in illegal activities due to joblessness. He pleaded that the government was constitutionally bound

LAHORE
The Lahore High Court on Wednesday stayed the termination of at least 62 district law officers including prosecutors and deputy prosecutors and issued notice to the Punjab government for Oct 19.
Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed restrained the government from withdrawing the perks and privileges of the law officers while hearing their petitions.
The officers challenged their removal pleading that the government had not adopted any legal course when terminating their

Shafia Bhatti, a contractual lecturer at Punjab University Institute of Communication Studies (PUICS), has responded said that the student Adnan Qurban a BS honor's student was failed and now he is trying to make sectarian issue.
However Adnan Qurban insisted on claiming a bias was behind him failing.
Shafia Bhatti's statement said that Adnan did not contribute to the final group project and was not present on the day of viva voice of the term paper. She further claimed his

LHC issued a notice telling Jhang police to not harass a couple who married against parents will
50-year old Ijaz paid Rakhi's parents to let him marry her
Rakhi and new husband Abbas filed over 4 different kinds of petitions against the police, but they did not stop
LAHORE:
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday issued notice to Jhang police officials for registering false cases against a couple who married against their parents will.